Kolkata, April 22 -- Tension ran high on Tuesday as hundreds of dismissed government teachers laid a siege to the West Bengal School Service Commission headquarters at Salt Lake and surrounded SSC chief Siddhartha Majumdar and others on Monday demanding publication of the lists of eligible and tainted candidates of the 2016 panel of teachers.
The police reinforced their forces around the SSC office even as the protesting teachers refused to move away and continued with the protest until the SSC accepted their demands.
The protesters, however, allowed the people who are taking water and medicines and essentials to the SSC chairman and other staff in the Achariya Sadan. Senior commission officials were inside, with the protesters determined...